The beginning of morality was the beginning of differentiation. One could go further and suggest that the beginning of civilization was the beginning of differentiation. The Old Testament begins with an enumeration and subsequent differentiation of the animals from man.
The denial of differences is the core of perversion, which is one of th reasons I have described PC thinking as a thought disorder; it denies unpleasant reality and obscures differences. The core of perversion is the denial of the difference between male and female:
True perversions, and their allied fetishes, are based, in part, on a boy's terror at discovering the female's genitals, where her lack of a phallus indicates, to his immature mind, that a woman is a man who has been castrated. The sight of a girl's or woman's genitalia creates so much anxiety that the little boy has to look away and learn to "not see" such a frightening sight. Please note, this is hardly universal and the boy's vulnerability to just such an outcome depends in significant ways on his relationship to his parents, especially his mother, in his earliest years. In a true sexual perversion, the adult man prefers non-vaginal sex because intercourse creates too much anxiety for the now adult little boy.
Religious and moral systems have traditionally rested upon a cascading series of distinctions, between male and female, good and evil, right and wrong. Our current culture wars, a struggle persisting from the 60s, involves a dedicated effort by those on the Left to undo the differentiations that underlie our culture. The modern sophisticated "liberal" denies differences between populations, between the sexes, between the generations. Part of their work involves the increasing pressure to not only destigmatize homosexuality but to elevate a homosexual lifestyle to a position of equality with the heterosexual lifestyle.
The Gay liberation movement that began in the late 60s has had many salutary effects. Homosexuality has been largely decriminalized and, certainly in public discourse, destigmatized. Despite such cultural changes, homosexuals have a more difficult time in childhood and adolescence because there remains a personal and cultural stigma to homosexuality. Children early on recognize that those who are "different" are different, and those who feel themselves to be different often feel shame because of their differences.
[This is not true when those differences are idealized. Young people who are great athletes do not feel stigmatized while many young people who are extremely intellectually gifted do feel stigmatized.]
The homosexual adolescent must come to terms with his feelings of shame and find a way to accept himself and retain his capacity for a full life and loving relationships; many, perhaps most can, but some have lifelong difficulty.
As a result most homosexuals have embraced their freedom to have relationships with anyone they desire and are quite content to live their lives with their most intimate relationships maintained in private, just as most heterosexuals prefer. Yet for those who have never successfully metabolized their early shame, there is often a tendency to deny and project the shame; as a result there can be a resulting demand and need for the greater culture to support their self-esteem. (This dynamic may be familiar to anyone who has read some of my posts on Narcissism, ie the use of the other as an object whose purpose is to support one's inflated sense of self as a way to ward off devaluation and despair.)
As with so much of the agenda of the left, the desire to "correct" the errors of the masses who continue to insist that homosexuality is less desirable than heterosexuality is now being played out in the California public school system: [HT: Siggy]
Stripped bare: 'Gay' school plot unveiled
'Infuse LGBTQ curriculum into history, social science, and literature classes'The Gay Straight Alliance recently forwarded an e-mail to its California chapters with information on how to make sure homosexuality is taught in the state's schools, and warned that having students and parents simply "tolerate" homosexuality simply is not enough.
"In many schools, learning about LGBTQ issues takes the form of very necessary tolerance education where students are educated about the importance of not discriminating against each other," according to GSA documents. "Tolerance education is an important first step, but we need to push further.
"Infuse LGBTQ curriculum into history, social science, and literature classes," is the organization's plan.
Karen England, a spokeswoman for Capital Resource Institute who publicized the GSA campaign and is a primary organizer behind the Save Our Kids plan to put the issue before voters and ask them to reject it, said this is exactly what she expected of those who wish to promote the homosexual lifestyle.
"The homosexual lobby is active and ambitious. They already have GSA units in many California schools that will oversee the implementation of SB 777," England said. "As evidenced in the GSA e-mail, their agenda is inclusion in school instruction and activities, regardless of their public assertions of 'streamlining' anti-discrimination policies in the law."
She said the GSA "guide" to be used tells students "that insisting on LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) history in school instruction 'helps to create schools where students feel safer and more supported.'"
"Utilizing the slogan 'Let's Set the Record Straight: History Isn't', students are given several action steps to take in accomplishing their 'curriculum campaign' goal. These include monitoring classroom instruction to see if LGBTQ individuals are discussed or 'made invisible'; taking over class to present LGBTQ history lessons and contacting textbook companies to change curriculum," England noted.
Homosexuality is not the same as, or equivalent to, heterosexuality, and the efforts to stigmatize those insecure heterosexuals who feel threatened or shamed by homosexuality or homosexual thoughts will only teach our children that their thoughts must be hidden, that free speech is merely a slogan, and that there are topics upon which one must not think, let alone speak. This is fundamentally an attack on our young, especially our school age boys who typically struggle with doubts and anxieties about their masculinity and need to negotiate many perils on their way to adulthood. No amount of enforced tolerance will keep youngsters from using "gay" as a shame-laden epithet. (It has become a term of choice for adolescent boys used to denote people and things that are "lame" irrespective of the sexual orientation of the object of the appellation.) Gay men and women have more freedom of expression in the West than at nay time and place in history. Their need to resolve their own shame-based insecurities by forcing the greater culture to idealize their life style is likely to be counter-productive; it also serves to distract a powerful political force from the fate of their homosexual brethren who are everyday being stoned to death, hung from cranes, and marginalized throughout the world.
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